The Indian High Commission in Bangladesh offers its clarification on a news article titled “India refuses entry to 70 citizens at Benapole check post for coronavirus lockdown” published by The Daily Star on its website on March 24.

More than 2,500 army personnel divided in 290 teams are discharging their duties in 61 districts to contain the spread of coronavirus.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor-elect Atiqul Islam and BD Clean, a youth-based platform, have joined hands to distribute food among the poor and low-wage earners as public transport services have been suspended in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.

A Bangladeshi healthcare company called Digital Healthcare Solutions has launched a coronavirus symptom check online and is available free of cost.

A citizen of Belarus working at the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Pabna has been sent to Dhaka for tests on suspicion of coronavirus infection.

More than three billion people around the world are living under lockdown as governments stepped up their efforts against the coronavirus pandemic which has left more than 21,000 people dead.

A special flight from China carrying medical equipment to help combat the spread of coronavirus lands at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

Government officials of Golapganj upazila in Sylhet have decided to donate their Baishakhi allowances in a bid to support the underprivileged local people during the coronavirus outbreak.

A total 364 Malaysia and Bhutan nationals stuck in Bangladesh returned to their countries through different flights between last night and this morning.

Five more people tested positive with coronavirus (Covid-19) in Bangladesh, taking the number of the confirmed cases to 44, according to the IEDCR.

A Bangladeshi doctor -- Misbahul Ferdous -- stationed at Fuwai Hospital in China, says the hospital received immediate help from a Bangladeshi cardiologist during their time of need, while tackling the coronavirus outbreak at its height in the country.

Local administration enforce isolation of three families -- comprising 12 members -- at a village in Basail upazila of Tangail as one of the families take shelter in the village after recently fleeing from the area in Dhaka’s Mirpur that is under lockdown.

A 65-year-old Kashmiri man who tested positive for Covid-19 has died in India’s Srinagar city.

Students of the chemistry department of Moulvibazar Government College produce hand sanitisers and distribute them free of cost among the underprivileged people of the district.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines suspended its operation on all routes except for two - London and Manchester - until April 15 due to the global coronavirus outbreak.

US deaths from the coronavirus pandemic have topped 1,000, in another grim milestone for a global outbreak that is taking lives and wreaking havoc on economies and established routines of ordinary life.

Ignoring the government advice to stay home, people in droves continued to leave Dhaka for their village homes yesterday.

There has never been a documented incident where Covid-19 has transmitted from a print newspaper, print magazine, print letter, or print package, according to the world’s top doctors and scientists.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday described doctors and other health staff at the frontlines of the fight against coronavirus as “incarnations of God” and said those harassing them would face police action.

Police in different areas of port city have started taking action against people who are roaming around without any valid reason, as part of precautionary steps to stop the spread of coronavirus.